Flashback: HTC HD2 was the best Windows Mobile phone, but it toured other OSes too

21 July 2019
The HD2 was the first Windows Mobile phone to have a capacitive touchscreen, which was made usable only thanks to HTC's TouchFLO 3D UI.

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  • JLG
  • 15 Sep 2022

Love the screen graphics, especially when snow was forecast

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    • Ivehadit
    • kNx
    • 13 Mar 2022

    I had the phone and it was cool for its time. However, the HP Elite X3 which came out later, raised the bar and then some. The X3 is the best windows phone ever made and still works great today.

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      • Anonymous
      • 4eh
      • 23 Jun 2021

      Anonymous, 22 Jul 2019WinMo is NOT windows phone. get your facts straight. Windo... moreAfter windows phone 7 came out, Microsoft renamed windows mobile to windows phone 6.5.

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        • Sonny
        • wc6
        • 04 Feb 2021

        I love this phone. I ported it to android. Super smooth. It was awesome. But the charging port somehow broke, and that was the end of the story for the phone. Otherwise I do believe I would have kept porting it every now and then. A really beautiful phone to the eyes and also to the touch. I miss my HD2

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          • KZK
          • 18 Jan 2021

          TheWildShadow55, 24 Jul 2019The only people still holding onto to Symbian are extreme f... moreThen explain to me why there are still active BlackBerry 10 users out there.

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            • Ghassan
            • Hxe
            • 28 Aug 2019

            One of the best as that time. I still have mine , working and in a very good situation with its box and all the accessories and i turn it on from time to time to save the battery. cant lose it !

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              • Operation Blitz
              • 39x
              • 25 Jul 2019

              Dataminer49er, 23 Jul 2019The HD2 was a lot of fun! I must have changed the ROM on m... moreA lot fun???? Absolutely atrocious camera and picture quality and sub par battery performance and bad customer support, Yes that was a lot of fun!! So much so I never will buy HTC again!

                SpiritWolf, 22 Jul 2019Completely dead? Not really. The only people still holding onto to Symbian are extreme fanboys. Everyone else has moved on to something actually supported.

                  The HD2 was a lot of fun! I must have changed the ROM on mine a dozen times before I lost it. It was an amazing piece of hardware for the time.

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                    • AnonD-731363
                    • SH3
                    • 23 Jul 2019

                    HP Elite X3 is definitely best windows phone ever released even Flagship Nokia 9502 XL by Microsoft were outstanding.
                    But at that time and era its possible.

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                      • Anonymous
                      • kxg
                      • 23 Jul 2019

                      Kingslayer, 22 Jul 2019I would like GSM Arena to have a flashback for these phones... moreAgree. That xperia X1 design is very good and it is way better than the latest xperia 1. It was produced way back when sony know how to design a phone.
                      I will add another great looking phone of the past, htc one s.

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                        • Anonymous
                        • IV8
                        • 23 Jul 2019

                        Pabliell, 22 Jul 2019Exactly what I said. 6 years ago. I won't say Symbian was b... moreOh I'm using Android right now.. But I still couldn't let go of my 808.. The camera is still the best for me.. The P30 Pro came close but still lacks in terms of detail and clarity.. It plays emulators smoothly.. Sound quality is superb.. I use it as my multimedia device.. My android is only for Whatsapp, FB and other social apps..

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                          • Anonymous
                          • pFH
                          • 23 Jul 2019

                          Anonymous, 22 Jul 2019Yeah lack of developer support was really one of the things... moreThis does not apply for Windows Mobile. It had a pretty great library and good backwards compatibility with apps for older WinMobile releases, but was a slow, buggy and broken mess from the start...

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                            • Gxx
                            • 22 Jul 2019

                            Kingslayer, 22 Jul 2019I would like GSM Arena to have a flashback for these phones... morei just want to see the lg keybo review

                              And I STILL use the sense widget for my clock/weather on my phones. Starting with the Galaxy Note2, all the way through to my current OnePlus 6T. I miss the Tilt series pre smartphones with their slide out hardware keyboards.

                                I would like GSM Arena to have a flashback for these phones -

                                BlackBerry Bold 9900
                                Nokia N95
                                Nokia N82
                                Nokia N8
                                Nokia N9
                                Palm Pre
                                Sony Ericsson Xperia X1
                                Sony Ericsson Xperia Play

                                The BB Bold 9900 is the Kim Kardashian phone that she would scour on eBay years after release. The Xperia X1 was released in 2008 and had an AMAZING DESIGN. It was close to Retina two years before iPhone 4 was released. And my favorite GSM Arena header of all-time was for the Nokia N9 review: Once in a lifetime.

                                https://m.gsmarena.com/nokia_n9-review-659.php

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                                  • Anonymous
                                  • Q5T
                                  • 22 Jul 2019

                                  Believe it or not I still have my HTC HD2.

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                                    • Anonymous
                                    • FXM
                                    • 22 Jul 2019

                                    Microsoft could have been a new OS back then but they choose not to support wimmo anymore

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                                      • Anonymous
                                      • IDj
                                      • 22 Jul 2019

                                      Anonymous, 22 Jul 2019"Officially, it was called TouchFLO 3D, but in reality the ... moreYou're mostly right, but I don't think the HTC Touch was touted as an iPhone killer, since they both came out at the same time and the iPhone was still a new experiment from Apple, not yet a leading device.

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                                        • Anonymous
                                        • M5Z
                                        • 22 Jul 2019

                                        djinn, 22 Jul 2019I bought this HD2 sometime in 2010 and used it for about 2 ... moreGood old days!!!!!